Startling and Fashionable Intelligence.
—The New Zealand Press Association thus • keeps its readers on the gui cite. Under the head of latest Southern news, to the Northern papers, it prepares them for a wonderful announcement as follows:—“Narrow escape of the Governor and Lady Bowen,” and proceeds, “ The Governor and Lady Bowen returned from Foxton to night. They nearly met with an accident at Porirua beach in the quicksand.” Did they! We think, they, like other ordinary mortals, are nearly meeting with accidents every day, which would be much nearer, and the escape from them much narrower, if they really did occur. We expect to hear next that “ Her Ladyship sat up rather later than usual last night and nearly got a head-ache;” or that “His Excellency ate so heartily at dinner to-day that he nearly lost his appetite.”
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume 1, Issue 12, 21 December 1872, Page 1 (Supplement)
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138Startling and Fashionable Intelligence. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume 1, Issue 12, 21 December 1872, Page 1 (Supplement)
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